Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modest man so I wouldn't want to take the credit for it," said Gilbert Pattan, author of the numerous "Frank Morriwell" stories, "but it is a fact that enrollment at Yale has increased since Frank first entered those hallowed halls...
Mussolini comes in for the lion's share of the ribbing. First he is shown awarding the Victor Emmanuel Fertility Cup and other similar awards to a group of buxom mass-production mothers, after which public enemy number one comes forward to bewail the fact in a variety of ingenious ways that she can produce only one at a time. Il Duce appears again, as one of the "Four Little Angels of Peace," the others being Hitler, Chamberlain, and an anonymous Jap. They all demonstrate their benevolence by treacherously and amusingly destroying one another. There is a denunciation...
...talk lately about political refugees from Central Europe and whether or not the United States ought to admit them tends to hide the fact there are already many persons in this country who were forced to leave Germany and Italy. Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Breuning are well-known refugees. A group of such scholars has set up in New York the New School of Social Research, which well-established institution has gone so far as to publish its own quarterly magazine and issue as its first supplement the pamphlet on Taxation. Recommended by the April Fortune as essential reading...
...unmistakably shown that Harvard is playing unproviding father to its biggest and hungriest child. Although almost half of the college concentrates in the social sciences, less money is spent upon each student in the departments concerned than on each man in less popular fields like Classics and Chemistry. In fact, the budgets of the least-populated fields are too large, so that not only is more money, spent upon professorships and teaching positions in these, but too much is afforded for every concentrator. Such a situation is more than warped; it means that through the denial of sufficient teaching...
...Inter-House Committee is like the Privy Council of English Parliamentary Government. It exists but scarcely ever meets. To most, in fact, the Inter-House Committee is not even a myth, its activities are so very inconspicuous. But such an organization does exist and there is full excuse for its being. It is only to be deplored, in the light of inter-House conflicts and inter-House ignorance, that it does not fulfill its office and rise from the grave of impotence...